Posts tagged with 'history'

Who can forget 1984 – Ghostbusters; Cindi Lauper’s She Bop and Girls Just Want to Have Fun; the #1 gold hit for the year, Kenny Loggins Footloose; or the Judds’ country hit, Why Not Me? And what about the snowmobile world? Where was it? On the home front we were racing across Saskatchewan, drags with […]Continue reading…

1990 saw the first of three snowmobile rallies that conquered the Quebec frontier like a rally in the desert – the Harricana race. Much to the pleasure of snowmobile enthusiasts, the Harricana returned in 2001 and 2002. The 1990 was organized by Rene Metge and Thierry Reverchon, patterned after the infamous Paris-Dakar rally for cars, […]Continue reading…

Author: Philip J. Mickelson Publisher: Iconografix Series: Photo Archive Series ISBN: 1-58388-105-0 Number pages: 126 Illustrations: black and white photos Ski-Doo Racing Sleds is more than a photo archive–it’s a documentary on the development of the snowmobile, focusing on the perspective of the Ski-Doo machine. Racing, as anyone involved in the sport will tell you, […]Continue reading…

Author: Linda Aksomitis Publisher: Altitude Publishing Series: Amazing Stories Series ISBN: 1-55153-976-4 Number pages: 128 Illustrations: some black and white photos Cost: $9.95 in Canada, $7.95 US Available from Altitude Excerpt from Snowmobile Adventures But by his teens, J.-Armand, like many boys, wanted larger projects to work on. He was especially fascinated with cars. He […]Continue reading…

Carl Eliason was born in Saynor, Wisconsin in 1899. Since a disability kept him from participating in many things, such as hunting and fishing during the winter months, he dreamed of a machine that would carry him through the woods where everyone else walked with snowshoes. Carl experimented with snowmobiles like the one invented by […]Continue reading…

Born in Valcourt, Quebec, Joseph Armand Bombardier made his first propeller driven snow machine in 1922 at the age of fifteen. Four years later, he started his career as an inventor and entrepreneur, in a garage his father provided. The first machines that Bombardier built in his garage were modified old cars, built along the […]Continue reading…

In the winter of 1954-55, Edgar Hetteen, along with his other partners in Polaris Industries at Roseau, Minnesota, decided to build a machine to travel over the snow. The first snowmobile created by Hetteen and his brother-in-law, David Johnson was based on the Eliason motor toboggan, and used an auger for propulsion. It was nicknamed […]Continue reading…